You're simply underestimating the propensity of some people to proudly display their ignorance to the world.
Indeed. Go here. Then read: Conguration Cell Technology: FLASH
The Flash chip is typically just a helper chip outside the FPGA. The logic configuration is transferred from the Flash to the FPGA every time when the system is started. But the general concept of FPGA is not about Flash. The general concept of FPGA is about a type of digital logic which can be changed easily.
FPGA is just gimmicked flash sandbagged with a liberal topping of patents. The fundamental patents are getting long in the tooth, keep an eye on those expiry dates. See the obvious connection with OP.
You could make a great character in a Dilbert comic.
Seriously price per gb isn't a barrier. They could sell the 120GBs for a dollar, it would just be money losing and stupid. But, it would smash the "barrier". When there ain't nothin' in your way, that ain't a barrier.
Facepalm. Making the product feasible for the maker is what affects the barrier.
There could be some kind of ata_mimic=winnt61 kernel argument. In this case it would enable a feature set that matches Windows 7. For example, some drives incorrectly claim to support queued TRIM when they actually don't, and this makes the drives explode under Linux. Under Windows 7 the drive happens to work, because the operating system does not even poll the drive for queued TRIM support, because it is not part of the Windows 7 platform.
The 850 Pro, Samsung said, can manage up to 550MBps sequential read and 520MBps sequential write rates and up to 100,000 random I/Os per second (IOPS).
There's nothing special in bothering to even mention the speeds of current consumer drives. They all saturate the SATA 6Gb/s bus, and that's that.
More specifically, TRIM is not broken in those drives but it is designed to work against the behavior of Windows mass storage subsystem. Linux can issue unexpected command patterns which can make the drive enter weird states and get confused. It's the same thing that happens with ACPI: in practice no manufacturer writes against the official spec but against the Windows spec.
The mess should be fixed really. Either the SSD makers should get their shit together (the proper solution), or the Linux kernel should be modified to be more compatible (the practical solution). Currently there is just a list of devices with blacklisted TRIM in the kernel and that list keeps growing.
Meeh. Firefox is not hi-tech anymore. The engine is crusty and slow. Not that good hardware acceleration either. The e10s project is not making enough progress and there will not be full tab process separation for a very long time. There is also no sandboxing.
Chrome and Microsoft Edge are nice choices. They have cutting-edge engines and big active development teams.
- Raawh! Windows subscription payment! What is this rubbish? I'm not paying anything! Joe, can you do something about this?
- There is Ubuntu, which is free.
- Good. Is that the Linux thingy?
- Well, technically it is GNU/Linux. You see, Linux is only the...
- Whatever! Does it come with Internet?
- Sure.
- Ok. Here's my laptop. Can you install Ubanto for me?
- It will take only few moments.
- Thanks, kid. I'll buy you some beer.
I do not suspect so. People are used to getting Windows bundled with their computers. If those people suddenly have to start paying for Windows, they would get annoyed and start digging deeper for free alternatives. Eventually they would find Ubuntu and that would begin to hurt Microsoft's business.
If Wine was commercial software, the customer demand and highly-motivated crack team of paid developers would have resulted the software to have premium USB support 10 years ago.
Well said. The only love we should be giving companies is the money we use to pay for their products. At the same time we should always demand the best quality possible for that money.
I don't know, man. Every year there seems to be some kind of "Oh my god, last IPv4 addresses allocated!!" story in Slashdot. For example, this one from 2011.
Despite that, we seem to be trucking on just fine. What's the real picture of the situation?
In a recent LateBlt video, there's some interesting rambling about DOSBox and its forks. Long story short, the development of the main branch has halted a long time ago, although it works pretty well already. However the DOSBox Daum fork is alive and offers things like save states.
The study of 14 popular VPN providers found that 11 of them leaked information about the user because of a vulnerability known as 'IPv6 leakage'. The leakage occurs because network operators are increasingly deploying a new version of the protocol used to run the Internet called IPv6.
Aaarggghh!!! The summary does not explain the issue properly at all.
All that happens here is that the user's IPv4 traffic is tunneled through the VPN, but his IPv6 traffic is broadcasted past the VPN.
I'm sure this problem can be avoided with some reconfiguration. The easiest solution would be to simply chuck off the IPv6 subsystem in the operating system.
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Well, maybe we roasted you a bit too much. :) Sorry about that.
You're simply underestimating the propensity of some people to proudly display their ignorance to the world.
Indeed. Go here. Then read: Conguration Cell Technology: FLASH
The Flash chip is typically just a helper chip outside the FPGA. The logic configuration is transferred from the Flash to the FPGA every time when the system is started. But the general concept of FPGA is not about Flash. The general concept of FPGA is about a type of digital logic which can be changed easily.
FPGA is just gimmicked flash sandbagged with a liberal topping of patents. The fundamental patents are getting long in the tooth, keep an eye on those expiry dates. See the obvious connection with OP.
You could make a great character in a Dilbert comic.
Seriously price per gb isn't a barrier. They could sell the 120GBs for a dollar, it would just be money losing and stupid. But, it would smash the "barrier". When there ain't nothin' in your way, that ain't a barrier.
Facepalm. Making the product feasible for the maker is what affects the barrier.
He's right, though. Throughout the era of SSDs there has been concerns about Flash cell longevity. The medium of HDD does not degrade meaningfully.
There could be some kind of ata_mimic=winnt61 kernel argument. In this case it would enable a feature set that matches Windows 7. For example, some drives incorrectly claim to support queued TRIM when they actually don't, and this makes the drives explode under Linux. Under Windows 7 the drive happens to work, because the operating system does not even poll the drive for queued TRIM support, because it is not part of the Windows 7 platform.
In that case the IOPS value would still be worth reporting.
The 850 Pro, Samsung said, can manage up to 550MBps sequential read and 520MBps sequential write rates and up to 100,000 random I/Os per second (IOPS).
There's nothing special in bothering to even mention the speeds of current consumer drives. They all saturate the SATA 6Gb/s bus, and that's that.
More specifically, TRIM is not broken in those drives but it is designed to work against the behavior of Windows mass storage subsystem. Linux can issue unexpected command patterns which can make the drive enter weird states and get confused. It's the same thing that happens with ACPI: in practice no manufacturer writes against the official spec but against the Windows spec.
The mess should be fixed really. Either the SSD makers should get their shit together (the proper solution), or the Linux kernel should be modified to be more compatible (the practical solution). Currently there is just a list of devices with blacklisted TRIM in the kernel and that list keeps growing.
Meeh. Firefox is not hi-tech anymore. The engine is crusty and slow. Not that good hardware acceleration either. The e10s project is not making enough progress and there will not be full tab process separation for a very long time. There is also no sandboxing.
Chrome and Microsoft Edge are nice choices. They have cutting-edge engines and big active development teams.
Anything that required a lot of my attention caused me to sit down... Stuff like coding or deep troubleshooting.
I've had similar experiences. When you have to concentrate deeply on something, it just is harder to get to the mindset while standing.
All they need to do is to ask their nerd friend.
- Raawh! Windows subscription payment! What is this rubbish? I'm not paying anything! Joe, can you do something about this?
- There is Ubuntu, which is free.
- Good. Is that the Linux thingy?
- Well, technically it is GNU/Linux. You see, Linux is only the...
- Whatever! Does it come with Internet?
- Sure.
- Ok. Here's my laptop. Can you install Ubanto for me?
- It will take only few moments.
- Thanks, kid. I'll buy you some beer.
I do not suspect so. People are used to getting Windows bundled with their computers. If those people suddenly have to start paying for Windows, they would get annoyed and start digging deeper for free alternatives. Eventually they would find Ubuntu and that would begin to hurt Microsoft's business.
Windows 8 and newer come close to that, as they start up part of the OS from an hibernation image.
SteamOS is like that.
If Wine was commercial software, the customer demand and highly-motivated crack team of paid developers would have resulted the software to have premium USB support 10 years ago.
Never fall in love with a company.
Well said. The only love we should be giving companies is the money we use to pay for their products. At the same time we should always demand the best quality possible for that money.
No, the sentence is correct. Read it again. Notice that the word "immune" means "resistant to something".
Yep, technically you are correct.
IPv4 CG-NAT seems to be heavily used in cell phone networks as well.
I don't know, man. Every year there seems to be some kind of "Oh my god, last IPv4 addresses allocated!!" story in Slashdot. For example, this one from 2011.
Despite that, we seem to be trucking on just fine. What's the real picture of the situation?
In a recent LateBlt video, there's some interesting rambling about DOSBox and its forks. Long story short, the development of the main branch has halted a long time ago, although it works pretty well already. However the DOSBox Daum fork is alive and offers things like save states.
Hurr durr I'ma sheep.
He was probably thinking Twitter.
The study of 14 popular VPN providers found that 11 of them leaked information about the user because of a vulnerability known as 'IPv6 leakage'. The leakage occurs because network operators are increasingly deploying a new version of the protocol used to run the Internet called IPv6.
Aaarggghh!!! The summary does not explain the issue properly at all.
All that happens here is that the user's IPv4 traffic is tunneled through the VPN, but his IPv6 traffic is broadcasted past the VPN.
I'm sure this problem can be avoided with some reconfiguration. The easiest solution would be to simply chuck off the IPv6 subsystem in the operating system.